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Coaching & Consulting
Designing an Effective Hiring Process
Getting the right people on your team is critical to the sustainability of your business. High turnover rates or underperforming team members can have a detrimental impact on your business and profitability.
Construction Safety
Opioids in Construction: How Home-based Drug Deactivation & Disposal Saves Lives
Business
Performance Construction to Focus on Contractor Community
Business
IIJA/BABA Purchasing Guidelines Explained in Webinar
Coaching & Consulting
Recovery Week: Breaking Down Stigma & Creating Hope
Coaching & Consulting
Your Balance Sheet: A Critical Financial Tool
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Business
White Cap Expands Reach in Oklahoma, Oregon
White Cap has acquired Bend Construction - a supplier of struts, fasteners, anchors, and concrete accessories and products - and Crimson Steel - a distributor and fabricator of engineered steel rebar and structural steel products.
Business
Construction Supply Chain and the Baltimore Bridge Collapse
How much will construction and other supply chains be impacted by the collapse of the Baltimore Bridge and the suspension of traffic through the Port of Baltimore? End users may temporarily face delays and increases.
Business
Construction Trends for 2024
While the industry will continue to go through transformation like many others, those willing to marry the fundamentals of the craft with new technology and sustainable building methods can continue to experience great success in 2024 and beyond.
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Labor & Workforce Development
Ignorance on the Jobsite Costs More Than Education
When our industry is already fighting for respect from school educators, who seem to continue to push students into the college direction, we need to take some extra steps to win over a whole new generation of workers.
Coaching & Consulting
Construction Leaders Recognizing & Responding to the Opioid Crisis
Three leaders within the construction industry share their stories of how they recognized and responded to the growing opioid crisis.
Coaching & Consulting
Risk Management: Safety First
The legality and science of risk management is quite well known among most contractors and is growing in need to be embraced, understood, and practiced by all specialty contractors.
Business
National Construction Trade Championships Return for 35th Annual Competition
ABC’s all-of-the-above approach to workforce development has produced a network of affiliates across the country that offer more than 800 apprenticeship, craft, safety, and management education programs to build the people who build America.
Coaching & Consulting
Job Costing: What, Why, and How
Job Costing is an important tool in evaluating your business performance. Without job costing, it’s difficult to understand where you’re making your money. You could be making a significant profit on certain types of projects and losing money on others.
Business
Construction Labor Report Discusses Constricted Labor Pool
This report analyzes how the labor force has shifted since the pandemic and provides practical strategies for how organizations can adapt.
Construction Safety
Forming the Alliance for Naloxone Safety In The Workplace
In response to the rising rate of both fatal and non-fatal overdoses attributable to opioids, the story behind forming The Alliance for Naloxone Safety In The Workplace and how it's changing the face of the construction site workplace as we know it.
Pavement Maintenance
How Juggling Expectations Shows Professionalism On The Job
Estimating and project management don’t need to be difficult, but they often can be.
Coaching & Consulting
Opioids & Overdose Deaths In The Construction Industry: A Call to Action
Addressing the opioid and overdose crisis requires straight talk to acknowledge that there is a problem. Stigma associated with substance misuse creates barriers to care-seeking for addiction treatment and recovery. Let's talk about it.
Coaching & Consulting
Content Warning: A Series On Opioids In Construction
ForConstructionPros.com invited Cal Beyer to author a series of articles exploring how and why the opioid crisis impacts the construction industry.
Financing, Insurance & Leasing
Navigating Used Equipment Purchases: A Closer Look at Hidden Liens
While most used equipment purchases go off without issue, there is a circumstance that buyers should be aware of, and that’s whether the used equipment in question has a hidden lien on it.
Pavement Maintenance
Cashing In During the Asphalt “Off Season”
November 14, 2023
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In recent years the need for wintertime asphalt work for municipalities, utility contractors, and commercial customers trying to “get by” until the spring has skyrocketed. This FREE WEBINAR will teach you everything you need to know.
Coaching & Consulting
Create an Accounting Structure to Take Your Business to the Next Level
Understanding your business’ financial performance is critical to long-term sustainability and success. However, if you don’t have the right structure in place for capturing your financial data, you may not be able to get the information you need.
Pavement Maintenance
Building A Business, Not A Side Hustle
Modern work culture sometimes promotes the idea of a side-hustle as something everyone should have, but for the team behind National Pavement Partners the goal is building a lasting business, and it's been that way from the beginning.
Pavement Maintenance
How Your Environmental Footprint Affects Your Pavement Business
How can we handle and get a grasp of the environmental impact of what happens in our everyday lives – and in our business?
Pavement Maintenance
Your Trailers are an Essential Piece of Equipment
Why – and how – to become a trailer maintenance master!
Business
Influencing Field Production Through Greater Clarity
In this article, the first of a four-part series, we will address how being clear in our communications as field leaders is critical to influence the actual production we want to achieve.
Infrared Repair Machines
Customer Education is Key to Growing Your Business with Infrared Technology
You can greatly expand your opportunities and margins with infrared asphalt repair, but you need to be ready to answer customer questions and demonstrate its advantages.
Business
Setting Up Your IT Infrastructure Keeps Your Business Organized
It’s important that you don’t get bogged down because you’re unorganized. Organization starts with your IT infrastructure.
Coaching & Consulting
How to Develop an Organizational Structure That Scales with Your Growth
A strong organizational structure is important for any business from the very beginning. You may be starting out on your own or with very few team members. You should build out your organizational structure in a way that will scale with your business.
Business
Keep Cash Flow Reports, Projections Current in 2023
If you do not have the time to update financials monthly, outsource the process to a consultant.
Business
Consider the Construction Equipment Financing Options Available
There are contractors and rental companies needing to upgrade their fleets with either new or late model used equipment. Many of you reading this are probably in this situation; figuring out what you may need, what you can sell off or trade-in, etc.
Business
Ways to Improve Construction Workforce Productivity in 2023
No matter what size your company is, you have to assume competitors are looking for ways to improve productivity and leaving you in the dust.
Business
Calculate the Productivity of Your Construction Business
How are your productivity stats standing up to the test of time?
Business
Max Cash From Your Operation
Cash is king, but more cash is even better.
Business Services
5 Steps to Improving Leadership Skills among Mid-level and Senior Leaders
How to lead your leaders to minimize the risk of having poorly developed leaders who are incapable of achieving more profitable results.
Podcasts
Using Technology to Achieve Workforce Diversity in Construction
Hosted by ForConstructionPros.com technology editor Charles Rathmann, this inaugural episode of the HR Punchlist Podcast focuses on workforce diversity in construction.
Pavement Maintenance
Overcoming Time Wasters at the Job Site
Consider these techniques that you can integrate into your own approach to maximizing the amount of time spent by workers working.
Business Services
What to Say When Your Customer Says 'Your Price is Too High'
When a customer responds with, “Your bid is too high,” try the following response; remember to be respectful.
Coaching & Consulting
Initiative Helps Engineering & Construction Industries Restart Projects Stopped by COVID-19
Project Slowdown/Restart planning initiative is designed to help engineering and construction industries restart projects stopped by the pandemic.